For that, Anthony David Orazio should spend the next seven years in prison, state Judge Reginald T. "Reggie" Badeaux ruled.

According to St. Tammany Parish prosecutors, Orazio went to an acquaintance's home in November 2005 and asked to use the computer. He claimed the Internet at his place was not working properly.

The acquaintance let Orazio in, and he ended up alone in a room with the acquaintance's daughter. He reached under her clothes and touched her vaginal area, prosecutors said.

Investigators were later notified. They jailed Orazio on Nov. 29 that year on one count of sexual battery, which is punishable by up to 10 years in prison. He then posted $35,000 bail and in 2007 skipped town for New Zealand.

There, Orazio managed to get a work permit. But by May 2010 he had gotten in trouble with customs agents, who accused him of importing and exporting child pornography and of secretly filming a woman naked in her bathroom.

Orazio again went on the run after agents searched his apartment, but he was tracked down within a few days, according to media accounts from the country. Officers reportedly had to subdue him with a stun gun before his capture.

New Zealand's government eventually deported Orazio back to the United States. He was brought to the 22nd Judicial District courthouse in Covington on July 29, and Badeaux ordered him jailed with no bond since he posed "an extreme flight risk," court documents show.

After Assistant District Attorney Julie Miramon Knight and defense attorney Marion Farmer's office reached a plea agreement Thursday, Badeaux informed Orazio that he would have to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life. He also cannot possess a handgun for 10 years after completing his sentence, and he may still have to answer to New Zealand's government for his alleged crimes there, according to news reports.

The victim's relatives watched as Badeaux commanded Orazio to inform any future neighbors of his conviction with fliers bearing his photograph.